Dozens of talented queer and/or trans authors and poets have contributed to the past 3 years of You Can’t Kill A Poet. Come out and enjoy a selection of these past readers while enjoying good words, good drinks, and the celebration of three years of queer and trans folks sharing their work.
Scheduled Readers:
Berry Grass
Emma Sanders
Jessica Levine
Gabriel Ojeda-Sague
Lauren Yates
Alina Pleskova
Zach Blackwood
Julia Perch
Plus MORE to be announced!
$1 all beef or veggie bean tacos (until we run out!)
$2.50 Tecates all day
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
Mad House Magazine presents a melodious showcase of poetic artistry in anticipation of Mad House Vol 4: REVOLT!
Gathered beautifully as it pupates from frantic emailing to layout stages, they will be selling preorders of the issue in order to have enough capitalist labor coupons to print copies in gorgeous full-color for everyone who wants one (& hopefully a few extra for people of the future who don’t know it exists yet).
Enjoy the perceptive, ungovernable work of these [5] poets:
+Sara Schwartz
+Gina Myers
+Angelo Colavita
+Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela
+Kirwyn Sutherland
Help us out by dropping in $10 for your copy and you’ll have our love and we’ll have a magazine waiting for you on reading night ♥
+Plus+ get a free copy of A SLENDER VOLUME little anthology zine! 🙂
Doors at 7:30, Reading to start by 8
50¢ pierogi from noon – 10pm
Half off all drafts 10-11pm
Tire Fire is back with another round of amazing authors. This month, you’ll be able to listen as Jason Diamond, Nicole Steinberg, Justin Sanders, and Brad Windhauser read selections of their published work.
They’ll also be collecting donations for the Nationalities Service Center, NSC, who are the largest non-sectarian organization in the Greater Philadelphia area which provides comprehensive services in the areas of language access and proficiency, legal protections and remedies, community transition and integration, access to health and wellness, and job readiness training to immigrants and refugees.
50¢ pierogi from noon – 10pm
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
Join Moss Angel Witchmonstr on her only Philadelphia stop as she tours in support of her phenomenal new book, Sea-Witch v.1 (May She Lay Us Waste). She’ll be joined by Colette Arrand, who also has a new book, Hold Me Gorilla Monsoon. Three other trans writers – Raquel Salas Rivera, Prairie M. Faul, and Barry Grass – will be reading,
Doors at 7pm, readings at 8pm.
50¢ pierogi from noon – 10pm
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
Accidental Player is back for their first show of 2017! Join them as they welcome poets Stacy Szymaszek, Davy Knittle, and P.E. Garcia for live poetry and literary readings.
Half off all drafts 5-7pm & 10-11pm
Celebrate Nicole Steinberg’s new full-length poetry collection, GLASS ACTRESS (out on February 15), with a night of poetry from local Philadelphia poets and authors. Support your local literary scene and bask in the beauty that is Philadelphia poetry!
Featuring:
RYAN ECKES
RACHEL MILLIGAN
GABRIEL OJEDA-SAGUE
NICOLE STEINBERG
KIRWYN SUTHERLAND
Doors @ 7 p.m. / Readings at 7:45
50¢ pierogi until 10pm
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
